[mrweasel]

The "issue" isn't that these new tools from Ubuntu is in Rust, that's almost irrelevant. The issue is that they are not the "standard" tools.

If Ubuntus Rust replacements aren't adopted in other distributions, or only in some of them, we get an even more fragmented Linux ecosystem. We've already seen this with the sudo-rs (which really should be called something else). It's a sudo replacement, ideal a one to one replacement, but it's not 100% and for how long? You can also think of the Curl provided by Microsoft Powershell, which isn't actually Curl and only partially provides Curl functionality, but it squats the command name.

Ubuntu might accidentally, or deliberately, create a semi-incompatible parallel Linux environment, like Alpine, but worse.